conrad Challenge china finalists

The Conrad Challenge is proud to introduce the finalist student teams who participated in CONRAD CHALLENGE CHINA.

The below teams scored highest within their category in Round 2: The Business Plan, where their submissions were reviewed by an expert panel of judges. As a result, they will participate in the final round of the 2021-2022 Conrad Challenge China.

AEROSPACE & AVIATION

 

Instant Flight - Jing Liu, Yunfan Zeng, Lichuan Qiu

[INSERT SCHOOL]

Instant Flight focuses on the fast and comfortable travel needs of metropolis entrepreneurs.

PTERO-BAT - Sendelta International Academy Shenzhen

Junhong Cai, Yufei Hu, Junle Zhang, Ming Qi, Xiangyu Wang

PTETRO-BAT develops UAV+ to completely change the way that medical supplies are delivered.

China-Walle - Fan Fei, Shiqi Chen, Manqing Zhu

High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, The Wardlaw-Hartridge School, Jinling High School

The mini space greenhouse is a higher plant incubator, which will aid in research into the mechanism of higher plant growth under micro-gravity circumstances.

Reach for the Stars - Tianruo Xu, Tianyi Zhang

United World College of South East Asia, Ningbo Xiaoshi High School IB Center

This team developed a manipulator to help the planets' exploration and material identification on other planets by applying machine learning.

Guardian - Gefei Guan, Ziqian Xu, Junlin Li

The Masters School, Columbia Independent School, Amador Valley High School

Guardian develops a system of wearable sensors, compatible app that can be integrated with existing in-flight systems.

Unified CubeSat Dispenser - Yuekun Cui, Muze Li

Hefei No.1 High School, Hefei No.8 high School

Unified Cubesat Dispenser is a kind, low-cost and integrated solution of satellite dispenser for CubeSat and NanoSats.

 

CYBER-TECHNOLOGY & SECURITY

 

Safe Travels - Yifan Zhou, Siyu Lu, Wunwun Jiang

BASIS International School Guangzhou

Turning Helper aims to improve road safety for e-bike and biker users, thus providing a safer traveling condition for all road users.

SonixPower - Lechen Wang, Zhuoyang Xiao, Zetian Jin

Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School

SonixPower Guardian is aimed to help the elderly who live alone to have a safer life and to offer an efficient way to deal with emergencies.

ECOsystem - Hanlin Wang, Winston Qian, Cynthia Zhou, Bill Xi, Lawrence Li

Tsinghua International School

Eco-friendly Care-taking Observation System (ECOsystem) is a care-taking system for both the elderly and youth. It consists of monitoring devices and wristbands or anklets and aims to solve the challenge of caring for both elderly and infants for modern day parents.

Bluetooth - Zhiyi Gui, Mingyang Jiang, Yixuan Zhao

Temasek Junior College, Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy

Bluetooth is an online platform, which serves as a one-stop portal to facilitate dental appointments, profile tracking, communication and public education.

 

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

 

ME-POWER - Junkai Feng, Baiming Zhang, Yimeng Sun, Guoxi Shen, Tianlan Lou

Northeast Yucai Foreign Language School, Insight Academy of Canada

ME-POWER is a wireless charging facility that can utilize the excessive electricity generated in idle speed to achieve ephemeral car-to-car cordless charging.

DOB - Ruoling Li,Yiwei Hu, Yubei Ni, Haochen Xiang,Tianyi Xu

Shanghai Pinghe Bilingual School, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy, Yangjing Senior High School, High School of East China Normal University International Division, Shanghai Experimental School

This product is a passive window product that is based on a monitoring system including temperature-based and humidity-based membranes in order to reduce the consumption of the electric energy and accomplishes the goal of energy saving.

Drill - Heyang Dong, Yihang Tang, Mochuan Jia, Keke Wang

Beijing Twenty First Century International School, McCallie School

New Domestic Sand-based Filter is a water purifier based on the SSF (slow sand filtration) technique. It helps filter different impurities when water goes through.

New Horizon - Yutong Wu, Evan Wang, Xihong Xu, Sijin Li

BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour

New Horizon is an intermediate platform that establish closer ties and provide more comprehensive service for car battery recycle industry.

WindRunner - Yuanchenxi Gao, Zihan Guo, Beila Wen, Manlin Zhang

Beijing 101 Middle School International Department

This organization designs an intelligent wind-resistant road sign that is able to change the direction of the separated panels of the sign board according to the direction and the speed of the wind detected using a sensor.

Explorer - Qianqiao Diao, YouJia Wang, Jingyi Yan, Xinyi Liu

Pinghe School

Explorer innovates an amphibious robot that assists scientists to conduct field studies remotely.

Biodegradable PVAstic - Rafael Wang, Junbo Zhou

Shanghai American School Pudong, Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School

This product is an alternative material to plastics that is biodegradable, which can be used to produce everyday goods including grocery bags, wraps, bottles, utensils, cups, and tubs

Apocalypse the simulator - Yiwen Liu, ZhiYang Wen

High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China

This team develops a game to remind players the damage we bring to the animals.

REST - Renzhi Mi, Yishan Zhou

Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, Canadian International School of Hong Kong

This product is designed to provide a practical and low-cost method to turn wasted one-off chopsticks into usable materials.

SES- Dingcheng Zhang, Sophia Yang, Sara Liu

Chinese International School (HK), United World College Changshu China

This product and service is a system that improves the whole cycle of electricity.

W&W - Dingcheng Zhang, Sophia Yang, Sara Liu

Chinese International School (HK), United World College Changshu China

This is a system that improves the whole cycle of electricity.

GreenCube - Leyi Shen, Jonathan Greener, Shannon Wang Xiao, Jerry Wu, Kaiwen Zhao

Wellington College International Shanghai, Shanghai High School International Division

The GreenCube model transforms traditional vertical farming’s expensive customization into modular and standardized components, resolving the key issue of scaling.

 

HEALTH & NUTRITION

 

Hypnos - Justin He,Edwards Tong, Jixiang Dou, Xi Wen Zhang

Shanghai High School International Division

Hypnos, a wearable device that utilizes non-invasive near infrared (NIR) light photo biomodulation to reduce the drowsy feeling people have and increase attention level upon awakening

Arion - Allen Feng, Zilin Fang, Siyuan Li

Shanghai High School International Division, YK Pao Senior Secondary School

Arion is a gait cycle rehabilitation device: the wearable robot, Arion exoskeleton.

Assistive Technology - Anya Yu, Ming Xuan Zhang, Nelson Wang

Beijing 101 High School

Black Box is a heart monitor which provides an AI diagnosis and thermodynamic diagram based on the sampled heart sound.

SparkInteractive - Junting Wang, Joy Li, Jiayi Zhang, Jiayu Zhang, Ningyuan Zhang

Peddie School, Shanghai High School International Division, Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, Northwood High School

SparkInteractive is an app that makes education accessible to children with ADHD and ASD.

Helping Hand - Taiyu Zhu, Chengcheng Qian, Jiajie Cai

Hangzhou Foreign Languages School

Helping Hand provides interactive sign language translation services through a wearable smart glove. 

No Painkneec Analytica - Xiyuan Yan, Yixuan Ling

Shanghai High School International Division

This product is a portable wireless knee joint angle measurement wearable device that is designed to provide rehabilitation services that are not dependent on the presence of a professional rehabilitation/recovery coach.

Harmony 1.0 - Carina Wang, Yichen Zou, Felicity Liu, Songyi Jiang

American Heritage School, Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Eastlake High School

Harmony 1.0 is a smart speaker that aims to automate the manual processes performed by caregivers. 

NOTrace - Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhehao Zhang

Dulwich International High School Suzhou

Intelligent blind obstacle avoidance shoes could detect obstacles thus helping the blind find the safe path.

Nicely - Tom Hu, Miffy Chen, YoYo Zhang

Ridley College, Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, Choate Rosemary Hall

Nicely is a real-time depressive mood indicator website that helps users keep track of their mental status.

Osborn - Jiasi Wang, Xinyang Liu, Yiang Song

Beijing No.2 Middle School

The advanced colonoscope is a new kind of colonoscopy that we can control the movement and direction of a magnetic capsule robot in our body to do a series of examine and observations. 

Food Security - Junyan Wang, Zhihao Yuan

No.2 High School of East China Normal University

This innovation is a fluoride detector which helps inspect the fluoride concentration level in drinking water as well as in food. 

Omniaural - Jiun-Ting Guo, Elizabeth Jin

Shanghai High School International Division

Omniaural is an app designed to restore our users’ hearing, with Speech Isolation, Aural EQ, True EQ, and Smart Boost working together to provide a focused, personalized, consistent, and clear auditory experience to our users.

Smoking Prohibitory Wristband - Zihao Jin, Annie Ge, Fengzhou Li, Yizhuo Zhang, Harry Wu

Western International School of Shanghai, Kent Place School, Greensboro Day School, Vanke Meisha Academy, Jericho High School

Smoking Prohibitory Wristband is equipped with motion sensors and haptic affecters, and an application with gamified community leaderboard, which aims to increase users' risk perception of e-cigarette

 

Flavor Feast - Yilin Han, Mingzhen Zhang

Beijing 101 Middle School

The innovation is a healthy diet recommendation application which focuses closely on customers' needs and experiences, aiming to help users to achieve their fitness goals easily and effectively.

FastY - Tianyi Huang, Bo Li

The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, Beijing No.2 Middle School International Department

The innovation is a HER2/CD3 bi-specific antibody FY004, which could serve as a bridge connecting HER2 positive tumor cells and T cells and promote the anti-tumor activity of T cells.

PsychAid - Daniel Cui, Ryan Ge, Jinming Zhang, Chuxin Liang

BASIS International School Nanjing, Shanghai High School International Division, BASIS International School Shenzhen, United World College of Southeast Asia

PsychAid is an interface that serves as a bridge between the victims in mental distress and professional therapists in mental emergencies following anthropogenic disasters.

Jessicajim - Kexin Le, Yang Chen

BASIS International School Nanjing, Nansha College Preparatory Academy

The innovation is a heavy metal detection device that utilizes the most recent technology of ASV (Anodic Stripping Voltammetry) to detect heavy metal in rice.

 

OCEANS: ISSUES & THREATS

 

Neroculus - Yaonan Zhao, Hongru Zou, Zilin Li

Shanghai High School International Division

This is an innovative buoyancy propelled underwater glider that moves not through traditional methods of external propulsion, but through altering its buoyancy.

GonGonG - Jiayi Li, Jingjie Lin, Yihao Tian, Shuaicheng Lai

BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour

This team’s idea is to collect the plastics flowing on the surface of the nearshore waterways and recycle them into road bricks or other construction materials.

FloatingCar - Xinhe Tian, Shuaicheng Qi, Hanci Wang

Beijing 101 Middle School

Floating care is a device that can let vehicles float in floods and accidents like falling into lakes.

Floating Firmament - Zhixiang Xu, Yicen Zhang, Tianyi Ding, Qiuyi Luo

Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy, Ngee Ann Secondary School

This product aims to utilize the sophisticated oil leak detection system and we come up with offshore boats that could constrain the oil from scattering into the marine ecology through waves.

 

EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY

 

Acaredemy - Chuntung Zhuang, Chun Wang, Meining Wang, Yue Ma, Lijun Cai

BASIS International School of Guangzhou, Beijing No.4 High School International Campus, Saint Maur International School

Acaredemy is tackling mental health problems like depression and anxiety and school bullying that can lead to severe crises.

LearningTent - Fa Sing Pei, Mary Wang, Ryan Huang, Gloria Wong, Sam Kung

Quality School International

WeClass is an online learning classroom program that is capable of simulating the actual learning environment and helping students feel as if presented in class by themselves.

Xiaoguo Tech - Yueqian Zhang, Zhiyuan Ji

BASIS International School Hangzhou

This product is a smart bookshelf designed to solve the problem of hard to locate books.

SEHS - Xinwei Li, Yijia Ma, Yiwen Liu, Wenshao Dong

Shandong Experimental High School

Quickminde is a multi-functional study app.

Raydan - Tianzhi Xu, Ray Sun

Shanghai American School

The mechanical worm is a small, soft-bodied, multipurpose exploration robot.